Douglas Coupland
Writer, playwright and visual artist.
Douglas Coupland is Canadian, born on a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, on December 30, 1961. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he continues to live and work.
His first novel, Generation X, was published in March 1991. Since then he has published nine novels and several non-fiction books in 35 languages.
He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England, and in 2001 resumed his practice as a visual artist, with exhibitions in spaces in North America, Europe and Asia.
2006 marks the premiere of the feature film Everything's Gone Green, his first story written specifically for the screen and not adapted from any previous work.
Biog last updated Aug 2006
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